Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-06
EASTERN ELECTIONS.
Chicago Republican By
10000 Majority,
TWO SUCCESSFUL LABOR MEN.
Prohibition Defeated in Michigan.
The Election in Various Other
States.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CHICAGO, April 5.-The day is cleal
and cold, and reports from nearly all
wards indicate that a large vote will b.
polled. The contest lies between Re.
publican and Labor candidates. Very
few Prohibition votes are being cast, al
though the Prohibitionists have ticket
peddlers at nearly every poll. The polls
opened at o'clock and the greater por-
tion of the Labor vote was pollsd during
the early hours. At 8 o'clock reports
from various precints show that from
ne.fourth to one-half the entire vote
had been cast.
Ninety-three precincts out of 339 give
Roche (Rep.) l0.lY7 majority over
Nelson (Labor). The present indications
are that the Labor party has only carried
one ward in the city. It is possible that
the head of the ticket has been carried
by the Republicans by $4,000 to 30, 600.
Z None hundred and seventy
precincts out Of 339 gives Roche 20, 800
majority over Nelson (Labor).
$40 P. M.-With twenty precincts vet
to hear from, Roche's majority is 20. 400.
1t is reasonably certain that the Unit.
ed Labor party elected two Aldermen
and nothing else.
At lO:35 the count was closed for the
night. Corrected returns from all but
three precincts place Roche's majority
at 2S. .l66. The so.called United Labor
party polled to day just one half the
number of votes it's leaders predicted
three nights before. Robert Nelson,
their candidate for Mayor. dis.
tinctly declared for the red flag.
He said III public il Sunday School
children would march in procession with
their chosen banners and no American
flag, he saw no reason why the working.
men equally orderly could not do the
the same even if the color of the banner
was red. Since then the campaign has
been fought solely on that issue and the
result is surprise to everyone, socialists
and anti socialists alike. Two United
Labor Aldermen are the only successful
candidates of that party. Their general
ticket is behind under majority of
nearly 5000 votes.
THE MICHIGAN ELECTION.
DETROIT, Mich, April 5.-The returns
from the State outside of the larger
cities are very incomplete as to the vote
on the Prohibition amendment. The
Euening Journals returns up to 10 A. M.
indicate that the amendment has been
carried by small majority.
While the returns from the counties
are still delayed, it is certain that Long
(Rep. is elected to the Supreme bench by
a handsome majority. He runs ahead
of Campbell, also Republican, at nearly
every polling place. Campbell is prob.
ably elected by majority . third less
than Longs, and the Republican csndi.
dates for the Regents have alsoIbeen sue.
cessful. The country has gone strong
for prohibition, and returns are not yet
sufficiently definite to say whether the
country has been able to wipe out
majority against tho amendment in the
cities. The probability this morning
was that the amendment had been car
ried by small majority.
James Mcmillan, Chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee,
says, while he has no figures On which
to make an accurate estimate, his belief
is that the Republican State ticket has
been elected by 10000, and that the
amendment is defented by about the
same figures.
At 10 o'clock this morning Professor
Deckie, Chairman of the Prohibition
State Committee. claimed the amend
ment had been carried by 10000 ma.
jority.
The returns from yesterdays election
are slowly coming in. 1t is being settled
that the Republican State ticket has
been elected by about 10000 plurality.
The interest centers on the prohibition
amendment. The Euening Journal says
it is defeated by $500 majority. and 9TH
ers claim the majority will reach 10000,
but the Prohibition Committee still
claims the adoption of the amend
ment. This claim is based on
the fact that all the cities have
been heard from, while the country
districts, where the movement had its
greatest strength, have not been fully
reported. All the figures so far received
on the amendment are partly estimated,
and little confidence can be placed in
them, although it seems probable the
amendment is defeated by small vote.
This evening the Prohibitionists claim
that frauds were committed against
them in several wards in this city,
and say that several precincts
will be contested. It is asserted
and known that Prohibitionists were
prevented from voting, that ballots for
the amendment were destroyed, and
that opponents of that measure were
allowed to vote several times and that
voters against the amendment were pur.
chased.
The latest figures on the election
places the Republicans plurality on the
State ticket at 5000, while on the 2rohi.
bition Amendment the opposition major
ity will be about $500.
THE CINCINNATI ELECTION.
CINCINNATI, April 5.-The returns
complete for Mayor yesterday, show the
following vote: Smith (Rep. for Mayor,
II 963; Watson (Dem.). 1851; Steven.
son (Laborl 1887. Smiths plurality,
500. The pluralities of the other Re.
publican candidates are as follows: f.
N. Moore, Judge of the Superior Court,
| 10, O,05O;'T. F. Hartsman, City Solicitor,
1880; A. F. Bohrer, Treasurer, S62,
j. A. Caldwell, Judge of the Police
Court, 4949; II. ]. G. Schwartz, Prose.
cutting Attorney of the Police Court,
$3.50; Emil Rohse, Clerk of the Police
Court, 1928. The footings for Council
men and members of the Board of Edu.
cation have not yet been made out. In.
dications are that the Republicans will
have plurality in both boards, if not Q
majority.
show the following result: Councilmen,
l3 Republicans, Labor, 3 Democrats;
Board of Education, Is Republicans, s
Labor, 2 Democrats. Que cause of this
is that the Third, Fourth, Ninth and
Twenty.first wards, hitherto strongly
Democratic, and the Tenth. Eleventh,
Twenty second and Twenty fourth,
strongly Republican, were carried yes